Stories & Poems

• dark 23
• eerie 37
• grounded 133
• intimacy 65
• kith-kin 66
• melancholy 67
• poetry 43
• solitude 123
• speculative 98
• tension 69
• wit 81

I gave some old stories a little love and polish. Find them here. They are my personal favourites.

Drift

5 minute read

The city had forgotten what it was supposed to look like.

The Corner Store

2 minute read

Fouad’s hands were flat on the counter.

True Dead

2 minute read

The ping came in the third hour of daywatch.

Figured You’d Understand

5 minute read

The habitat breathes at night. You stop hearing it after the first week. You absorb it. Become it.

Filed Under

3 minute read

The lair smelled like solder and bad decisions.

Still Light

4 minute read

The morning started with Donnie eating toast over the sink the way he always did

Elpis

6 minute read

A thousand years. Still going.

The Canvas

4 minute read

The rock cut through her gloves at the third handhold.

I Made It Right

4 minute read

The steam wand hisses.

Thorn Apple

2 minute read

Ruthanne stopped apologizing years ago.

Station Seven

4 minute read

The air tastes like ammonia and bleach and something underneath both.

The Phone

5 minute read

I can make it ring.